Contribution Of African American Culture
Today I will be talking about the contribution of African American culture to the United States. One of the largest emigrants to arrive in the United States in the colonial time is the West and Central Africans. You could find African’s spread out around American colonies from Maine to Florida , and Mexico to Canada. In the 1830s there where 2.3 million Africans out of the 12.8 million people in the United States.
The way Americans eat in New Orleans is influenced by African’s. The popular foods like rice, gumbo, black-eyed peas, yams, watermelon, and much more came from Africa. Today these foods and traditions are still going. Popular and traditional music in New Orleans was also African influenced. Music like jazz, blues, and rock-and-roll
signature instrument was the banjo which was an African origin. In New Orleans you can still hear the music.
During the Atlantic space trade 9.6 through 15.4 million Africans where enslaved. The Africans came from west and central Africa. African Americans have been present in the Americas for over 400 years. African Americans served as domestic help and help build a nation. Europeans did not have experience and knowledge in growing crops and some crops where unfamiliar to them, but Africans had experience with different crops and knowledge with technologies. One living space architecture that was adapted by the Europeans was the porch.
Smoketown, Louisville was original an area settled by Germans. Smoketown, Louisville then started seeing a heavily increase of African Americans after the Civil War, whom made the town the largest African American community in Louisville. Africans started to arrive in Louisiana around 1719. Africans where solely from Senegal and Gambia. Today the most historical black college is Spelman college and Howard University. So as you can see African Americans have made a lot of impact on America throughout history.
The way Americans eat in New Orleans is influenced by African’s. The popular foods like rice, gumbo, black-eyed peas, yams, watermelon, and much more came from Africa. Today these foods and traditions are still going. Popular and traditional music in New Orleans was also African influenced. Music like jazz, blues, and rock-and-roll
signature instrument was the banjo which was an African origin. In New Orleans you can still hear the music.
During the Atlantic space trade 9.6 through 15.4 million Africans where enslaved. The Africans came from west and central Africa. African Americans have been present in the Americas for over 400 years. African Americans served as domestic help and help build a nation. Europeans did not have experience and knowledge in growing crops and some crops where unfamiliar to them, but Africans had experience with different crops and knowledge with technologies. One living space architecture that was adapted by the Europeans was the porch.
Smoketown, Louisville was original an area settled by Germans. Smoketown, Louisville then started seeing a heavily increase of African Americans after the Civil War, whom made the town the largest African American community in Louisville. Africans started to arrive in Louisiana around 1719. Africans where solely from Senegal and Gambia. Today the most historical black college is Spelman college and Howard University. So as you can see African Americans have made a lot of impact on America throughout history.